Sentence examples for closest known from inspiring English sources

Genetic analysis showed that this yaws strain was the closest known relative to venereal syphilis.

Their closest known relationship is ninth cousin "twice removed;" the twice removed refers to Mr. Bush being two generations later than Mr. Kerry.

The closest known large settlement around this time is more than 350 kilometers to the southeast, in Watenstedt.

That made sense, because the closest known relatives of angiosperms--the conifers and other so-called gymnosperms--are all woody.

Thus, the closest known viruses to the Herfst et al. set by consensus sequencing are four nucleotide substitutions away.

Based on this constellation of features, the team claims Archaefructus is the closest known relative to the first flowers.

Chrompodellids, a monophyletic group consisting of predatory colpodellids and the chromerid algae Chromera velia and Vitrella brassicaformis, are the closest known relatives to apicomplexan parasites.

Models with good enough fit were listed as plausible, and their unknown parameter values were estimated from their closest known simulation design points.

The newly identified exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) is officially the closest known exoplanet to Earth, located at a distance of 4.25 light-years away.

Contigs were assembled in Bioedit v. 7.2.5 (Hall 1999) and queried using the NCBI-GenBank to find the closest known sequences.

The closest known candidate is IK Pegasi (see below).